In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 20:16:52 +0200, Fredrik Lundh wrote: > >> Claes at work wrote: >> >>> Please tell me there is a simpler way than subtracting two datetimes >>> to get a timedelta and then compute >>> >>> days * number of seconds per day + seconds >>> >>> from it myself?? >> >> why would you have to do that yourself? why not let Python do it for >> you? here's the code: >> >> seconds = td.days * 86400 + td.seconds > > I'm sure somebody as experienced as Fredrik doesn't need to be told why > peppering code with magic constants like 84600 are a less than ideal > solution...
Certainly a constant like 86400 would be better. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
